AIDS – a terrible disease
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AIDS - a terrible disease The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of today's biggest problems. Every day thousands of people die by AIDS and thereby many children loose their parents. The epidemic is spreading fast and something has to be done if not even more people should die a premature death by AIDS, on of the biggest challenges of this century. Poverty is one part of the explanations why the epidemic has a so rapid spread in the Sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic is worst. Sub-Saharan Africa is a place with high poverty, shocking health system and many persons with untreated sexually transmitted infections. Poverty doesn't explain the difference in HIV rates between different countries, but poor people are often less informed of the epidemic and because of that less motivated to change their behaviour. Another part of the explanation is that in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa conflicts are common, both local,...


